Gurkha Cigar Group is shipping two of its Gurkha Year of the Dragon series, a special edition set of cigars that includes four distinct smokes by four of the sector’s top producers.
AJ Fernandez created a 6 ⅝ x 52 box-pressed cigar in a 10-count commemorative green box set to ship following last month’s PCA trade show in Las Vegas. The cigar features an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper with Nicaraguan binder and filler.
The second collaboration now shipping is a 10-count black commemorative box with a 6 ⅝ x 54 toro by Ernesto Pérez-Carrillo. The cigar features a Mexican San Andres wrapper, Ecuadorian Connecticut binder, and fillers from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.
Both cigars have a suggested retail price of $25.
Yet to come are Gurkha Year of the Dragon by Oliva Cigar Company with an estimated shipping date in June and Gurkha Year of the Dragon by Oscar Valladares set to ship in September.
Cigar Snob profiled the project in its Jan/Feb 2024 issue.
Each release of Gurkha Year of the Dragon is a limited edition of 2,000 boxes per manufacturer.
